Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Design Premium How-Tos: Essential Techniques is a concise, economical, current, and informed guide to the key techniques for creating inviting and accessible design using Adobe Creative Suite CS5. Readers choose the How-Tos guide when they want immediate access to just what they need to know to get results.

The Adobe Creative Suite contains a powerful and extremely flexible set of tools that a creative person can use to make art. Whether working on an advertisement for a client, a painting for a gallery exhibit, or even an illustration for a children's book, there are tools for each job and more. The course is led by Dwayne J. Ferguson, a professional illustrator, author and creator of popular comic book and television characters. Work files are provided where necessary, so the user can follow along, or feel free to use his or her own imagination in the application of the techniques demonstrated.